The surprising persistence of symmetry protected topology
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Symmetry protected topological (SPT) systems are important both from a theoretical perspective, where they can provide new insight into order, symmetry, and topology, and from an applied standpoint, where they could form the basis for novel technologies. Yet for the most part, SPT systems are understood only in idealized settings. This thesis opens the door to the study of SPT systems under more realistic conditions. By theoretically and computationally investigating three physically motivated scenarios involving strong interaction, strong disorder, and quench dynamics, we demonstrate that signatures of topology can persist, in some form or another, when conditions are far from ideal. While these investigations focus on one class of model systems, we argue that the observed persistence of topological signatures should be characteristic of SPT systems, regardless of spatial dimension or protecting symmetries.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Marks, Jacob Austin |
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| Degree supervisor | Devereaux, Thomas Peter, 1964- |
| Degree supervisor | Qi, Xiaoliang |
| Thesis advisor | Devereaux, Thomas Peter, 1964- |
| Thesis advisor | Qi, Xiaoliang |
| Thesis advisor | Khemani, Vedika |
| Thesis advisor | Ying, Lexing |
| Degree committee member | Khemani, Vedika |
| Degree committee member | Ying, Lexing |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Physics |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jacob A. Marks. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/bm224xz2966 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Jacob Austin Marks
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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